| 495 and Theodore Turley arrived in Preston, from America; and on the 18th Brothers Woodruff and Turley started for the Potteries in Staffordshire, passing through Manchester; and on the 22d, Elder Taylor left for Liverpool.
"April 6, 1840, just ten years from the organization of the church, Elders Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, George A. Smith, and Reuben Hedlock, landed in Liverpool from New York; and on the 9th Elder Kimball arrived in Preston, just two years from the day he left for America.
"The arrival of the elders caused the saints to rejoice exceedingly, for it had been prophesied by many (not of the church) that they would never come, and that Elders Kimball and Hyde would never return; but they are both now in England, Elder Orson Hyde having arrived in Liverpool on the third instant from New York.
"HEBER C. KIMBALL.
"ORSON HYDE.
"WILLARD RICHARDS.
"PRESTON, March 24, 1841."
-Millennial Star, vol. 18, pp. 434-438.
When they arrived they were almost penniless, but full of faith and hope.
There were now seven of the Quorum of Twelve in Great Britain, and this being a majority, they were prepared as a quorum to transact business for the first time in a foreign land.
The Millennial Star was published soon afterward, at Manchester, and the work began to take a new impetus.
On April 14, 1840, there was a council of the Twelve held at Preston, England; present, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, George A. Smith, and John Taylor. At this meeting they ordained Elder Willard Richards to the apostleship. There were now eight of the quorum in England, leaving only three; viz., William Smith, Orson Hyde, and John E Page in America, as the vacancy occasioned by the death of David W. Patten had not been filled. Two of them; viz, Orson Hyde and John E. Page, were preparing for their mission to the Holy Land.
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